John Quincy Adams

Welcome again to the Get Serious! Talk Radio Show in Print, where we've invited two special guests to talk politics: Thomas Jefferson and John Adams.

Mr. and Mr. Ex-Presidents, welcome to the show! Some say our current presidential election campaign is the dirtiest, nastiest, most uncivilized ever. As revered Founding Fathers, are you as shocked as we are at the depths to which our politics has sunk?

(Sound of Adams and Jefferson chuckling.)

Adams: "Are you kidding? When it comes to political invective, you people today are amateurs."

Jefferson: "Right, John. They can't top our presidential election of 1800. After two centuries, we can laugh about it...

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